When Is A Windfall Apple Not Garden Waste?

when you put it in your garden waste bin in Flintshire County Council in North Wales, in a decision that begs belief that is what the council ruled when gardener John Mason had no doubt what to do with his unwanted windfall apples, they would go into his garden waste wheelie bin for the council to take away, but wait this is a garden waste bin, confused? I am! the council decreed that just because something is waste and comes from the garden, it doesn't necessarily qualify as garden waste, council workers refused to empty the brown bin, slapping a yellow sticker on it which told a bemused Mr Mason it had been 'contaminated' with food waste, Andy Macbeth, Flintshire County Council's environmental services manager, said: 'It is difficult, if not impossible, for our operatives to determine whether spoiled fruit or vegetable peelings in a brown bin have been in contact with other kitchen waste, 'We maintain a licensed composting facility to receive brown bin collections but we are not permitted to take such food waste on to the site.' so now all of the windfall apples have to go into the kitchen waste wheelie bin, I bet next week the same council fines John for putting garden waste into his kitchen waste bin!